. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ROSES DYING. Your paper seems to be the best place to get information, and as I am in need of some, I will place the matter before you. I have a new house of roses, planted last June. They did well until nearly Christmas, when they got a pretty good dose of mildew, in spite of the fact that I had used sulphur regu- larly on the hot water pipes; some- times I thought I used it pretty strong, as I could smell it plainly and feel it in my eyes, but the mildew came just the same. I tried some sprays, which seemed to have no effect whatever, so finally
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ROSES DYING. Your paper seems to be the best place to get information, and as I am in need of some, I will place the matter before you. I have a new house of roses, planted last June. They did well until nearly Christmas, when they got a pretty good dose of mildew, in spite of the fact that I had used sulphur regu- larly on the hot water pipes; some- times I thought I used it pretty strong, as I could smell it plainly and feel it in my eyes, but the mildew came just the same. I tried some sprays, which seemed to have no effect whatever, so finally I used Bordeaux mixture, which cleaned it out, but two or three weeks ago the Killarneys began losing their leaves and a great many of them took on a sickly yellow appearance. Even the young shoots, with buds on, com- menced to lose their leaves from the bottom up, and finally to the top; some- times the bud matured and sometimes it wilted and turned its head down. Some of the foliage looked as if it had a bad case of red spider. There were some red spiders in spots, but not a bad case of them. I used the hose freely, but now some of the roses are dying. I am sending a sample of them under separate cover—two small plants, pulled up. The soil was well enriched with horse manure at the time of planting and a layer of coarse manure was put over the cracks in the benches. The only other fertilizers used were a little bone meal and a small watering of nitrate of soda, about a teaspoonful to a 1^- gallon sprinkler of water; also a little wood ashes and a small amount of lime, the latter just a few days ago, to help kill the fishworms. These plants seem to be dead at the roots and I do not know what the matter is. Eichmond and Maryland in the same house and under the same treatment are not affected, or only to a small degree, but I fear half the Killarneys will go, though some of them are showing new growth and a few were not badly affected. E. M. H. The two plants received were ent
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